What should I wear for yoga?

What should we wear when practicing yoga? If it is too tight, many people feel that they cannot relax their bodies. If it is too loose, many people feel that it will be restrained when practicing yoga, and they will always stumble. Therefore, many people have great doubts about this issue. They don’t know what to wear to practice yoga. If you don’t pay attention to your clothes, you will feel inconvenient when practicing yoga. So what should you wear when practicing yoga?

Yoga practitioners should wear loose cotton clothes as much as possible, avoid wearing pants with belts, avoid wearing backless clothes (which will cause cold when meditating and sitting), go barefoot, and women should not wear bras and remove all accessories such as bracelets, earrings, necklaces, watches, etc.

Yoga, which originated in ancient India and has a history of thousands of years, has become a very popular fitness method today. But doing yoga improperly can easily lead to injury.

Yoga should be practiced according to one's ability

Chen Shiyi, director of the Sports Medicine Department at Shanghai Huashan Hospital, said: "There are indeed many patients with sports injuries now. I have treated some patients who were injured while practicing yoga. They often do the movements too hard.

yourself, and even hurt your back, waist, neck, etc. Ligament sprains, cartilage tears, joint inflammation, neuralgia, etc. are all common "yoga diseases". "Therefore, when practicing yoga, you should fully consider your flexibility, balance and strength, and you must follow the principle of exercising within your ability. If the intensity or difficulty is too high, it may cause sports injuries.

Don't rush to practice yoga

Wei Liming, a coach at the Shanghai Hatha Yoga Club, said that most of the participants in yoga classes are women aged 20 to 50, and most of them hope to lose weight through practicing yoga. But you must know that when practicing yoga, you must not be impatient for quick results. Yoga has always been against the impatient mentality of seeking quick results. Some people only see one side of yoga but ignore the essence of yoga - a peaceful state of mind. This is also one of the reasons why "yoga disease" is prevalent. Usually, it is more suitable for beginners to exercise three times a week, and it takes three months of persistence to feel the effect. Mr. Shen Weide, who is 76 years old this year, started practicing yoga in 1992. After more than ten years of practice, not only have the diseases that plagued him in the past disappeared, but tests have also shown that his physiological age is younger than his actual age.

When practicing yoga, you should satisfy your own body shape and choose according to your own body shape. It is okay to choose tight-fitting ones, but these tight-fitting ones must be elastic, so that you will not feel restrained when exercising, and you will not feel that your clothes are in the way. You will not feel that they are too loose and keep slipping down, which will make us unable to concentrate when practicing yoga. After you have made your choice, you can devote yourself to practicing.